The Confederate monuments, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu explained in a historic speech at Gallier College in 2017, “are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.” The mayor called upon the city of New Orleans to create new symbols together, reflective of the possibility and potential of all, rather than the white elite and workingclass southerners who remained tied to a particularly toxic understanding of “heritage.” Lee Circle minus the statue of Robert E. Lee, 2017, by Kate Medley. front porch

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新奥尔良市长 Mitch Landrieu 在 2017 年加利尔学院的一次历史性演讲中解释说，同盟纪念碑“不仅仅是石头和金属。它们不仅仅是对一段良性历史的无辜回忆。这些纪念碑有目的地庆祝一个虚构的、经过消毒的邦联；无视死亡，无视奴役，以及它实际上代表的恐怖。” 市长呼吁新奥尔良市共同创造新的象征，反映所有人的可能性和潜力，而不是仍然与对“遗产”的特别有害的理解联系在一起的白人精英和南方工人阶级。Lee Circle 减去了 Robert E. Lee 的雕像，2017 年，Kate Medley。前阳台